Ferreteria/modules/forms

Requirements

The forms component needs to be able to do the following:

represent all the different types of input control that can be rendered in a browser, especially without using JS
translate values between the following formats:
- display: text for rendering in browser (in both editable and read-only formats)
- storage: format suitable for databases (typically, escaped for SQL)
- native: internal, for performing calculations and comparisons
display a collection of controls and static elements (in both editable and read-only formats)
receive user-entered data from displayed form
display a database record as a form
display multiple database records as a continuous form